Police outside the jewellery shop on the day of the murder.

South Goa district police chief goes on 8-day leave

The Goan NetworkPublished Sep 7, 2020, 12:28 AM IST

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Police outside the jewellery shop on the day of the murder.

MARGAO: South Goa district police Chief Pankaj Kumar Singh has proceeded on eight day leave, with the police department handing over the charge of office to SP Mahesh Gaonkar.

Sources in the know, however, sought to rubbish reports that SP Pankaj went on leave a day after the Goa police decided to transfer the sensational Swapnil Walke case from the Margao police and hand over the same to the Crime branch.

Sources said that SP Pankaj Singh had applied for leave sometime back, but the leave did not materialize on one reason or another. His leave application was kept pending after Margao recorded the murder of city jeweller Swapnil Walke and SP Pankaj has now proceeded on leave on Saturday after the Crime branch took over the investigations.

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Questions surface, motive behind jeweller's murder remains buried

Exact reason in a day or two, say Crime Branch sleuths

THE GOAN NETWORK

Published Sep 7, 2020, 12:26 AM IST

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MARGAOIt’s now five days since city’s young jeweller Swapnil Walke was gunned down by assailants in broad daylight, and the police arresting three persons in the sensational murder, but a moot questionremains unanswered “ what’s the exact motive behind the gruesome killing that the investigation agencies have so far failed to unearth till date?This question and many other questions remain unanswered even as the Crime Branch has taken over the investigations in the Swapnil…